From the NY Times: Finding Organ Donors Concealed in Plain Sight

Finding Organ Donors Concealed in Plain Sight

David Bornstein

Second of two articles.

Last June, after it became clear that their 3-month-old son, Nathan, needed a liver transplant, Rob and Christina Whitehead of Mokena, Ill., created a Facebook page to tell his story. Word spread quickly. “More than a hundred people called our donor hotline,” recalled Talia B. Baker, director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.